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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1992-commencement-no-1-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/588",
  "legislation_title": "The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1992 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1993",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed Day",
  "text": "1st April 1993 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the whole of the 1992 Act so far as it is not already in force, except for the following purposes—\n(a) effecting the substitution, by section 4 of the 1992 Act, of section 5(8) of the 1979 Act so far as that substitution consists of the addition of a new paragraph (e);\n(b) effecting the substitution, by section 4 of the 1992 Act, of section 5(9) of the 1979 Act so far as that substitution consists of the removal of that provision in its application to paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to that Act;\n(c) bringing into force in Northern Ireland subsection (2) of section 5 of the 1992 Act and section 17(4) of the 1992 Act in its application to that provision; and\n(d) effecting the repeal, by section 16(2) of, and Schedule 3 to, the 1992 Act, of paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the 1979 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 2 and 15 came into force on the passing of the Act."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/588/article/2",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}